Grate



(No Model.)

L. BANNISTER.

GRATB;

Patented Nov. 21, 1882.-

N` PllrrRs, Plmmmm f UNITED 'STATES `PATENT OFFICE.

LEMUEL BANNIS'IER, GF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GRA'TE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,737, dated November 21, 1882,

v Application yfiled July 28, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, LEMUEL BANNISTER, of Pl'iiladelphia, Philadelphia county, State ot' Pennsylvania. have invented certain Improvements in Grates, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to that class of fnrneces, stoves, grates,'&c., where the grate-bars are rocked for the purpose of cleaningor raking the fue; and my invention consists in constructing the bedplate of the furnace or grate so as to permit the rocking appliances to be applied to stoves of ordinary construction, yet conceal the same, avoid the distorting of the frame or casing of the stove, and cheapen the manufacture, as fully described hereinafter.

ln the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a portable cylinder-stove, with part ot' the lire-pot and base broken away t'o illustrate my invention and Fig. 2 is a transverse section, showing a modification.

It is common in some classesof grates to use rocking bars and appliances connected to the ends of the bars, whereby all may be rotated in unison to rake the fire. As heretofore constructed these appliances, when applied to a stove, are exposed, in many instances detracting from the nish of the article, sometimes presentingprojections upon which the clothing can catch, and any attempt to conceal them as constructed would necessarily distort the casing. i A

My invention consists in so arranging the rocking devices and in so constructing the frame or base of the stove or other articles that such devices shall be mainly below the level of the gratebars and wholly concealed, without interfering in the least-with the operation of the rocker-lever or altering the form plate, B, and vertical face-1' late,which'conceal the arms and cover the raking appliances, as shown.

To permitof the use of the raker-lever or other device, I make a slot, s, in the cover-plate at-'any suitable point. For instance, it may be above the usual eye-lugs,fg, as iu Fig. l, the lever being passed through the slot s in the plate B into sai'd sockets and operating as set forth in Letters Patent heretofore granted to G. B. Mershon. Where a lever is used Iprefer to dispense with the c ve-lugsfg shown in Fig. 1, and to make a lever-socket, i, in one of the arms c, as shown in Fig. 3. This construction (which is applicable in most cases where suchrocking devices are used) relluces the cost of manufacture, insures the simultaneous rocking of all the bars, including the centerbar, and preserves the parts all in their relative positions, while in the old construction illustrated in Fig. l the removal of the lever permits the center bar torotate freely while the others are kept in position.

In place of socketing the arm, it may have a projection on the end adapted to a socketin the end of the lever.

After the lever is removed a plate, e, covering an opening in the front plate, may be detached, and the center-bar arm maybe drawn forward to permit the center bar to drop. In suchcase the pin m, connecting the arm c to the cross-bar d, may be so long that the movementof the arm will not detach it from the pin.

ent devices for moving the grate-bars with like effect, and said plate may be separate or a part of the usual upper base-plate.

It will be seen that by the construction above set forth the bar-operatic g devices are kept entirely out of sight until the re is to be raked, and then the operating lever or bar only is exposed.

I am aware that operating devices have been arranged within the casings of sliding grates and shakers, and do not claim broadly arranging grate-operating devices within the casing; but

I claiml. The combination, with a heater, of a series of rocking grate-bars, a, with pendent end arms, all connected to one cross-bar, d, and Iall ICO arranged and connected within the body ot In testimony whereoflhavesigned my name 1o the heater, and an external lever, A, whereby to this specification in the presence of two suballot' said arms maybe simultaneously vibrated 'sorbing witnesses. i through the medium of the bard, as set forth.

2. The combination, with lthe `rocking bars LEMUEL BANNISTER. and their connected arms c, of a detachable lever, A, having a socket or projection corre- Witnesses: Sponding to af socket or projection 0n one of GEO. F. MUNCEL,

the arms, for the purpose specified. l CHARLES E. HENRY. 

